vbArchive - Search Engine Indexer for vBulletin

[NexDog]

Sure someone mentioned it in this thread...

[kms]

excellent!!
seems to work aok on v2.3.0

[kms]

excellent!!
seems to work aok on v2.3.0

[kms]

01-13-03 at 08:19 AM TECK said this in Post #1 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=341581#post341581)
vbArchive v1.3 Released
WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 1.3:

Forums Optimizations
You MUST perform also some the mods listed below if you want your forums optimized properly for search engines indexing.
Steps 1 to 3 are vital, the rest is optional.

1. TO STRIP THE sessionhash FROM TEMPLATES (ONLY FOR CRAWLERS), READ MORE HERE (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=342706#post342706).
2. TO BLOCK CRAWLERS GO TO CERTAIN PAGES, READ MORE HERE (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=342923#post342923).
3. TO LINK EACH FORUM/THREAD DIRECTLY TO ARCHIVE FILES, READ MORE HERE (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=344457#post344457).
4. TO DISPLAY NICE LOCATIONS, THE FIX FOR online.php FILE IS HERE (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=342218#post342218).
5. TO DISPLAY CRAWLER NAME INSTEAD OF GUEST ON FRONTPAGE AND ONLINE PAGE, READ MORE HERE (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=352073#post352073). (mod by Inphinity and xiphoid)
6. TO DISPLAY CRAWLER NAME INSTEAD OF GUEST ON ONLINE PAGE only, READ MORE HERE (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=351786#post351786).
7. IF YOU WANT THE MAIN ARCHIVE FILE TO HAVE A .php EXTENSION, READ MORE HERE (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=342448#post342448).
8. TO CHANGE THE threads/posts per page NUMERIC VALUES, READ MORE HERE (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=342451#post342451).
9. TO DISPLAY THE SMILIES AS image parsed, READ MORE HERE (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=346995#post346995) (mod by Logician).

.

are these to be done in adition to the hack ? i.e. steps 1-3, 4+ etc

TIA :)

[TECK]

Yesterday at 09:16 PM kms said this in Post #504 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=379325#post379325)
are these to be done in adition to the hack ? i.e. steps 1-3, 4+ etc

TIA :) Yes.

[TECK]

04-06-03 at 08:25 AM Boofo said this in Post #500 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=378154#post378154)
That's news to me. Are you sure it comes with it?

It does not.

[Boofo]

Actually, I knew that, Floren. I was just goading him. ;)

[NexDog]

I guess I was tripping on that day. :p

That said, I'm going to undertake the 2.3.0 upgrade this weekend. :|

[Greivog]

Hey there TECK

I have installed the Hack, but im not sure if it`s working or not.

There are no problems with the page, but i cant seem to go to

http://www.uk-muscle.co.uk/archive/

Is there anything i need to do to get this working,

You can see the forum at http://www.uk-muscle.co.uk

I am not sure if it`s installed and working or not

Many thanks

Paul Govier

[TECK]

04-11-03 at 02:00 PM Greivog said this in Post #509 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=380555#post380555)
Hey there TECK

I have installed the Hack, but im not sure if it`s working or not.

There are no problems with the page, but i cant seem to go to

http://www.uk-muscle.co.uk/archive/

Is there anything i need to do to get this working,

You can see the forum at http://www.uk-muscle.co.uk

I am not sure if it`s installed and working or not

Many thanks

Paul Govier
Quoted from the first post:
The script uses Apache's ForceType directive. Most of Apache servers have it installed by default.
Check with your host to make sure the module is installed.
If you use another server then Apache, the script will NOT work.

[EvilLS1]

Google finally spidered my forums about 2 months after submitting it. I've been getting a ton of hits to my archive today. Nice job TECH.

[trafix]

Question!!!!!

At the start of this post is v13.zip of the indexer script, however on your site http://www.teckwizards.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=617 you have v14.zip

I have just installed vbhome (lite) do i sign up to your site TECH and download version 14.zip or just use version 13 from here??

Thanks

[trafix]

Ok i have added archives to atmyparty.com here (http://www.atmyparty.com/archive/)

[trafix]

ummm, I originally had xennon's archive hack installed, do you recomend that I uninstall??? will it cause conflict with both there??

[TECK]

There should be no conflicts at all... Is up to you.

[NexDog]

Teck! What's happened to our archive you think:

http://www.hostnexus.com/forum/archive/

Something's not right on our forum since I transferred it to a new dedicated server. So much processing latency when a link is clicked. Anyhow, the bots are still hitting it. Just click on a link in who's online:

http://www.hostnexus.com/forum/showthread/t-159.html

Nothing there though. What could be happening?

[NexDog]

If a reinstall is nexssary, is it going to mess up our links. Just got 16,000 pages listed in Google, wouldn't want to lose them...

[TECK]

Make sure the archive templates are present... if not, run the installer again, it will update the templates.

[ryancooper]

Awesome. . . installed

[NexDog]

Right you were Teck. :)

[AlexanderT]

Can someone help?

3. TO LINK EACH FORUM/THREAD DIRECTLY TO ARCHIVE FILES, READ MORE HERE.

HERE = https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=344457#post344457 leads to "Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 15 seconds exceeded in /www/vbulletin.org/htdocs/forum/admin/functions.php on line 734"

[TECK]

Click again on the link... :)

[jjj0923]

does anyone have any ideas why this will not work on apache2 ??

I know apache is reading and processing the .htaccess file because i've put in options like indexes with fancyindexing and that works.

I keep getting an error that indicates the url was not found on the server and the apache error says "/usr/local/mysite.com/upload/archive/" does not exist?

I've just spent two hours and it won;t work. It works on my 1.3.27 apache server just fine.

just as a test I added archive to the mime types associated with php in my httpd.conf file and removed the 301 redirect from the .htaccess and that work. I can also change the redirect and point to my apache1.3.27 server and that server displays the archive page ...but the apache2 server will not serve the page

out of ideas....

do you have any?

[TECK]

It's working fine on my localhost with the latest Apache version.
Make sure you configure your conf file properly.

[jjj0923]

well. I check my 1.3.27 conf file line for line to my 2.0 cnf file and there are no differences that would could be attributable to the problem. Would you om or email me a copy of your conf file?

thanks

- jeff

[jjj0923]

well...after 4 hours of testing I can confidently say that this hack does not work properly under Apache2 running on Linux.

and that's a shame because this is a great hack.

I compiled apache 1.3 and put it on the same server as apache2.0 and made the httpd.conf file exactly the same (with a few minor exceptions required by apache2.0 and when I fire up apache1.3 on the server this hack works. when I fire up apache2 it does not.

oh well...

it's a shame google and msn spidered thousands of my pages and they all now lead to broken links.

If you got it working on apache2 running under RH Linux, I'd like to hear from you and what you did to get it to work.

[99SIVTEC]

This hack is awesome. I've had it going for a couple months now. I have more traffic than ever, and my google rankings are very good. I went ahead and added a popup to the archive and so far i'm making 2-3 dollars a day off of it. It's enough to more than pay for my webhosting every month. Here is my archive link http://www.club18t.com/vbulletin/archive/

Here is the popup place if you want to try it out

popup sponsor (http://www.popupsponsor.com/tracker/ref.phtml?ref_id=11340&s=1)

[Courage]

This is freaking me out....

I installed this hack. For now I have ~ 30 000 unique visitors on my site & forum, but... Google bots are mad... All those guess from the attaced picture are google boots !

I will need a bigger server ? :eek:

[TECK]

This is nothing, I had at once 48 Google crawlers, on our web site. :)
The server handle it very easy.

[99SIVTEC]

I guess the place I posted earlier is no longer accepting new members. You guys can try these out though. I hear very good comments from the users. Like I said they are just a decent way to make some extra cash off the new found archive trafficThis one (http://www.popuptraffic.com/wsignup.php?1eightt)

This is the other one. It appears to me much less intrusive to your guests though which is nice Here (http://paypopup.com/pubsignup.php?ref=EightT)

[Sharg]

So, is it recommended to put a NOINDEX NO FOLLOW tag on dynamic vb pages, since we prefer the static html archives to be indexed ?

Cordially,
Sharg

[Baccillus]

Hello,

I moved my server and i am getting this error now.

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare archive_nopermission() (previously declared in /home/coupons/public_html/global.php:378) in /home/coupons/public_html/coupons/admin/functions.php on line 2468

i uninstalled the vbhomelite + the indexer and reinstalled it again..
i am not able to figure out the error..

any help/guidance is appreciated..

TIA

the url is http://www.couponsnext.com

[Baccillus]

btw the indexer + the forums works fine..

http://www.couponsnext.com/coupons

the url is http://www.couponsnext.com/coupons/archive/index.php


i am really confused now

[TECK]

Today at 07:35 PM Baccillus said this in Post #532 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=385605#post385605)
Hello,

I moved my server and i am getting this error now.

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare archive_nopermission() (previously declared in /home/coupons/public_html/global.php:378) in /home/coupons/public_html/coupons/admin/functions.php on line 2468

i uninstalled the vbhomelite + the indexer and reinstalled it again..
i am not able to figure out the error..

any help/guidance is appreciated..

TIA

the url is http://www.couponsnext.com
You probably use the vbHome script.
Check the specific vbHL archive add-on, in order to get it working perfectly.

[Baccillus]

thank you...problem solved..should have read everything..but managing 30+ sites a day is no joke as well ;)

[Sharg]

This hack is genius.
I thought It would build static pages and take much space and processor power to do so. I was suprised when I understood the trick used to transform vb url in "fake" simple html looking urls.

[keress]

I hate to ask the obvious, but I can't seem to find any link that will actually allow me to download this hack. Where's this link, please?

[mini2]

Just to say that, inspired by this hack, I've moddified a lot of my PHP/MySQL driven website now to accept simple name_number.html URLs instead of news.php?id=34 type URLs, and Google is crawling all over the site and indexing many more pages than ever before!

Thanks again all who have contributed to this hack.

:)

[jeffj]

Today at 05:12 AM keress said this in Post #537 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=386272#post386272)
I hate to ask the obvious, but I can't seem to find any link that will actually allow me to download this hack. Where's this link, please?


why don't you take the time to read the very first post in this thread.... you'd be surprised as to what you'll find...

:)

[Sharg]

Hello,
once this hack installed, I think it is better to make a noindex,nofollow tag on regular non archive vb forums pages, since the content will be spidered from the hack.

What do you think ?
Thanks in advance,
Sharg

[TECK]

04-24-03 at 08:49 PM Sharg said this in Post #540 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=386566#post386566)
Hello,
once this hack installed, I think it is better to make a noindex,nofollow tag on regular non archive vb forums pages, since the content will be spidered from the hack.

What do you think ?
Thanks in advance,
Sharg
Not really. If you set properly the robots.txt file, you are ok.

[Sanjiyan]

I've installed the archive addon version of this hack for the vbhome (lite) (I'm running VB Home Lite 4.2), I used the archive download from TECKs forums, and I have followed the installation file that was in the zip file to the letter...

I've also done the install 3 times, yet I'm constantly having the same problem. I have not edited any of the templates because I've read here that you dont need to, and if you do it will mess up the whole thing.

But I'm having problems.

Here is the URL to the archive:

http://theborg.cjb.net/archive/

My site runs from the root, with the forums in /forum etc

but the archive background is white when it should be the same colours as the rest of the site, it has a gross white 'bar' along the top right hand side of the screen, and its missing the navigational buttons, of and the links to the archived forums say this when clicked on:
'No forum specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the webmaster'

Does anyone have any ideas?

I've attached a small screenshot section of the page so you can look at that, if you dont want to click on the link above.

Thanks

Andy

EDIT: Uploaded image to this url: http://www.sanjiyan.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/borked_archives.jpg

[TECK]

You should ask this question on the support forums, for vbHome (lite).

[TECK]

Hmm... 120,000 pages (http://www.google.ca/search?q=showthread/t-&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8) on Google, indexed...

[Courage]

Inktomy is now crawling my archive, but why the hash is still present ? I've installed the hack for no_hash and it's working

Inktomy is now crawling: http://www.softnews.ro/forum/archive/72?

[Courage]

Please.. It seems that Inktomy has problems

See this screenshot

[NexDog]

04-29-03 at 07:06 AM TECK said this in Post #544 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=388586#post388586)
Hmm... 120,000 pages (http://www.google.ca/search?q=showthread/t-&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8) on Google, indexed...
And we are number 6 on that list. ;)

(with 16,000 pages listed)

[Courage]

What spider is this ?
Is crawling my forum for a week

Ip: 65.69.3.127 and 192.233.23.5

[Tigerdude]

If you already have an .htaccess file can you just add the code to it?
<files archive>
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</files>

<files forumdisplay>
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</files>

<files showthread>
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</files>

RedirectMatch 301 /archive$ http://www.yoursite.com/forum/archive/

Where would it go? At the top or the bottom? Does it matter?

[Courage]

doesn't matter

[Tigerdude]

Would someone mind clarifying this installation step for me?

STEP 4
Copy the contents of add_to_functions.php file onto your forum functions.php file, just above the:
?>
code segment.

Save and upload the file.
In my functions.php file, I have two instances of the"?>" code.
Do I copy the contents of add_to_functions.php file above both places where ?> appear?

[EvilLS1]

Go to the very end of the functions.php file. Add the code just above the ?> .

[Tigerdude]

Thanks courage and evil.

[TECK]

05-04-03 at 12:52 PM NexDog said this in Post #547 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=391167#post391167)
And we are number 6 on that list. ;)

(with 16,000 pages listed)
Actually you are no. 4 now. ;)
143,000 pages (http://www.google.ca/search?q=showthread/t-&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8) indexed... not bad...

[Logikos]

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare archive_nopermission() (previously declared in /home/hazelboy/public_html/global.php:237) in /home/hazelboy/public_html/Forums/admin/functions.php on line 2471


Thats is what i get on my portal after i modded the functions.php like said in the readme file. Seems to work fine but that error message.

Portal Can Be Found Here (http://www.thenemesis.net)

Archive's Can Be FOund Here (http://www.thenemesis.net/Forums/archive)

[TECK]

You are using vbHome (lite). Get the vbHome archive add-on (http://www.teckwizards.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=617) instead, it will work perfectly after (plus is better then this hack ;)).
Make sure you undo all changes you performed onto your files, related to the archive hack, before you install the add-on.

[Logikos]

Im Using mYvBindex v3.1. Does that cause any problems? If so i can always uninstall it and install vb home lite. Seeing that was the first portal system i was using. Which ever works

[TECK]

If you do not use vbHome, then you should not get the error you mentioned before.
Check the code in functions.php file.

[Logikos]

Okay i'll do that now :)

[marktaw]

This isn't working for me... The groups show up, but they're not linked. Check it out:

http://www.prosoundreview.com/archive/

[TECK]

You are using the vbHome add-on, so there is no reason to ask here for help, since is not the same hack.
Try the vbHome support forums.

[version2]

Do ANY of the archives work with Apache2?

[jjj0923]

Today at 09:54 PM version2 said this in Post #562 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=395963#post395963)
Do ANY of the archives work with Apache2?

not this one... I tried to get it working for 3 days...gave up and went back to apache 1.3

:(

[atomic fireball]

TECK, excellent hack. Installed with ease.

Quick question: Just curious, will an automatic redirect from my host, from the root index page (www.mydomain.com/index.html) to (www.mydomain.com/forum) cause problems?

According to your read me, I need to add the link (www.mydomain.com/forum/archive) on the main root index page. Due to the redicrect, if I add this link to either the header/footer of the forum index, will everything be peachy?

I assume I still need to add the robots.txt file to the root index page, or should I also include it in www.mydomain.com/forum due to the auto-redirect?

Just checking, and thanks for work on this!

[dr1]

I have installed, and re-installed and still cannot get it working :(
Apache's ForceType is running on my server.

Apache/1.3.26
PHP/4.3.0

All I get is the following:

http://dr1.com/forums/archive

I also uploaded an archive.txt file and re-named it to archive.php
For some reason it only shows a few of my forums. http://dr1.com/forums/archive.php

I know it must be something stupid, just don't know what?

Dont worry, got it to work :)
Needed the point in front of the htaccess and some of my forums needed to be sub-forums. Thanks for a great hack!!!!!!

[cnczone]

I got a question, last night I went to google and did a search for my site and got a bunch of (new) links. Than I went on and searched today and all the links I saw the night before were all gone. WHY? What happened to them all?

[atomic fireball]

Earlier in this thread, TECK mentioned that this exact same scenario is completely normal and not to panic. Apparently if I remember correctly, he said that the preliminary searches show up on google initially, and then when they are processed for a "deep search" and included in their database you may see the listings temporarily removed.

That's the gist of what I read earlier in this thread.

In other words, chill, don't panic. All will be normal soon.

[TECK]

Thanks atomic fireball. Also, I posted an email from Google support in the first thread.
Only if people would take the time to read everythink... ;)
Look for "GOOGLE TECH SUPPORT E-MAIL [LINKS ARE "DROPPED"? NO]"

[atomic fireball]

Hey TECK, no problem. :)

Did anyone get a chance to see my question regarding using a host's auto redirect from the root index page to /forum path? (it's about 3 posts up).

It's beyond the realm of this particular hack's info, but if anyone knows if changes need to be made for search engines when you redirect the root index page, to the /forum page, I'd like to know that info, thanks.

I figure I'll just create a dummy index file (with the archive link) on the root index page (which should be never seen due to the host's auto-redirect), and add robots.txt to /forum path, and the archive link to my main forums page and I should have my bases covered. But just wanted to be sure.

Thanks again TECK for the excellent hack.

[NexDog]

05-20-03 at 11:59 AM TECK said this in Post #568 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=397489#post397489)
Thanks atomic fireball. Also, I posted an email from Google support in the first thread.
Only if people would take the time to read everythink... ;)
Look for "GOOGLE TECH SUPPORT E-MAIL [LINKS ARE "DROPPED"? NO]"
Unfortunately not, Teck. Google just screwed us anyway:

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=site:hostnexus%2Ecom+Nexology+Community+Archive

Only listing 2800 pages now instead of 16,000. This last update sucks big time. PR got caned, links dropped, page one listings disappeared.....:(

[NexDog]

Teck, you've fared pretty badly with all your archive out of Google as far as I can see...

[TECK]

Today at 06:51 AM NexDog said this in Post #570 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=398342#post398342)
Unfortunately not, Teck. Google just screwed us anyway:

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=site:hostnexus%2Ecom+Nexology+Community+Archive

Only listing 2800 pages now instead of 16,000. This last update sucks big time. PR got caned, links dropped, page one listings disappeared.....:(
Trust me, you will be very happy soon. They do this all the time, they drop it for few days, but the links show up rightaway after...
Look at vBulletin.org archive results:
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=site%3Avbulletin.org+showthread

[NexDog]

Only 6000 pages on that search, Teck. I know Google is always changing but this latest update is definitely different. People on WMW are up in arms.

[TECK]

Honestly, I have no idea why, Laurence... That's the email they sent related to link droppings, specifing that is only temporary.
If you guys have more info related to this issue, please post it here so we all find out about it.

I will post it also in the first post so other users will read it to.

[dano]

The vbLite version of this is simple and works VERY well. No issues at all, I think install took 30 seconds.

Killer!

EDIT only one issue (see below post)

[dano]

01-19-03 at 08:57 PM eva2000 said this in Post #91 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=343725#post343725)
what's the best way to turn off certain private forums from being viewed altogether regardless of usergroup permissions ?

I REALLY need to know this one. I searched this thread and Teks board and cant find an answer. Can anyone help? I am using the vbLite version, and simply want to make it so that a few of my password protected forums are not showing up in the archive.

As it is now, they are listed and can be viewed by guests or members.

If you can help, it would really save me here. Thanks!

[TECK]

dano, please post it in the forums. Cheers.

[dano]

Thanks at posted it at your Forums per your request, but I am hoping that if someone can help with this they may help me here too. If anyone can help, it woud sure help me a LOT. Thanks.

[telc]

01-13-03 at 08:50 AM TECK said this in Post #2 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=341587#post341587)
A little note, this was tested on normal URL's:
http://www.yoursite.com/forum

If you use an URL like:
http://forum.yoursite.com/
you will have to hack yourself the files, since I don't provide support for the script.
If you want a working version no matter how it is the forum URL, then use vbHome (lite) (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?s=&threadid=36756) and it's Archive Add-On.


It worked fine on my vb 2.2.9 forums without editing the scripts, and my forum is in the format http://forums.mysite.com/

[gmarik]

Is there a way to display archive by motnhs:

2003

January
February ...

Like a real archive?

[gmarik]

Is there a way to display archive by motnhs:

2003

January
February ...

Like a real archive?

[temdy]

Does this hack work with vbPortal?

[TECK]

This hack is made for vBulletin. vbPortal uses vBulletin to display it's news articles.

[FlyBoy73]

Any update on the Google Results? I have lost over half of my links in google in all 3 of my forums.. I have never seen this before.
David

[gmarik]

dFrisk - how large is your board than?

[Mickie D]

thank you for this fantastic hack .. :) inktomi loves my site was on it crawling for 5-8 days just gone.

currently getting new hosting because we are getting to large on bandwidth with 7000 Members and 40 online most of the time.

but i wanted to ask is it possable for the archive to stay open if i make my boards private ????

P.S also i cant see your 3rd vital mod ??? .. the one linking directly to archive or something.. i keep getting a 15 seconds maximum timeout from this site :(

[Mickie D]

one last thing
(sory for new post did not want to untidy my last one)

this sesionhash removing thingy ... has that effected my htaccess for my admin section ???

because since i installed your hack optional extras... it keeps asking me every page i goto in my admin cp for my password and username ... in the htaccess pop up :(

[TECK]

It should not affect any .htaccess options because my listed options are used specifically for the archive and not the forums.

[TECK]

Today at 07:07 AM dFrisk said this in Post #584 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=400464#post400464)
Any update on the Google Results? I have lost over half of my links in google in all 3 of my forums.. I have never seen this before.
David
I'm curious about it, also. Google is listing now only 34 pages for my archives (teckwizards.com) and I had before this over 1000, for several months...

[99SIVTEC]

Today at 06:44 PM TECK said this in Post #589 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=400657#post400657)
I'm curious about it, also. Google is listing now only 34 pages for my archives (teckwizards.com) and I had before this over 1000, for several months...



I'm still showing 5,400 listings for my first site, and 1,450 for my second. This might just be due to the current google dance going on.

[Mickie D]

yeah i found it was just a glitch :( must of had a few pages open with my admin init or something sorry

but teck can i still have access to my forums archives from google or any other bot if i make my board private ????

and also whats up with the 3rd vital option from your first page i get a 15 second maximum excession or something from this site ??

[sajjid]

01-21-03 at 07:43 PM TECK said this in Post #132 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=344457#post344457)
[B]Here it is another interesting mod I made to my forums, to link back to archives.
This will help because the crawlers will see the friendly URL's easier.
Basically the mod links every forum/thread to the archive.
To test it, mouse over each forum or thread icon, while viewing my forums (http://www.teckwizards.com/forum/).
Also, check the link I added under the thread title, while viewing the actual (not archived) thread.

TEMPLATE: forumhome_forumbit_level2_post
FIND: <td valign="top"><img src="{imagesfolder}/$forum[onoff].gif" border="0" alt=""></td>REPLACE WITH:
<td valign="top"><a href="forumdisplay/f-$forum[forumid].html"><img src="{imagesfolder}/$forum[onoff].gif" border="0" alt="$forum[title] Archive"></a></td>


i dont see this code in forumhome_forumbit_level2_post all i have in that template is whats below

<tr align="center">
<td bgcolor="#1C5780" valign="top"><img src="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/images/$forum[onoff].gif" border="0" alt=""></td>
<td bgcolor="#13486D" align="left"><a href="forumdisplay.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&forumid=$forum[forumid]"><normalfont><b>$forum[title]</b></normalfont></a>
<br><smallfont>$forum[description]</smallfont></td>
<td bgcolor="#1C5780"><normalfont>$forum[replycount]</normalfont></td>
<td bgcolor="#13486D"><normalfont>$forum[threadcount]</normalfont></td>
<td bgcolor="#1C5780"><smallfont>$forum[lastpostinfo]</smallfont></td>
<td bgcolor="#13486D"><smallfont>$forum[moderators]</smallfont></td>
</tr>

i have installed aswell here is the link

http://www.spinzone.org/forums/archive/

[NexDog]

Of course it's there:

<td bgcolor="#1C5780" valign="top"><img src="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/images/$forum[onoff].gif" border="0" alt=""></td>

[sajjid]

Today at 04:46 AM NexDog said this in Post #593 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=400940#post400940)
Of course it's there:

<td bgcolor="#1C5780" valign="top"><img src="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/images/$forum[onoff].gif" border="0" alt=""></td>


Thank you very much NexDog it worked every thing seems to be in order now one question not on the topic though i want this option disabled "Automatically parse URLs " when people post or reply i want that box unticked rather then ticked because at the moment when ever you post its ticked by default i want it other way round any help please ?

[Courage]

I have the no hash hack
Why is this happening ?

Plz see attached file :(

[FlyBoy73]

Yesterday at 01:17 AM gmarik said this in Post #585 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=400466#post400466)
dFrisk - how large is your board than?

My largest has over 3500 members, 155,000 posts and 15,000+ threads.

The others have around 400-500 members and a few thousand posts.

[sajjid]

well since i installed this hack which seems to be working on my forum but all my listing have gone from google search index nothing come up now this happened yesterday i find it very strange how can this happen in just one day

[Mickie D]

i get this error aswell ???

Warning: Unknown modifier 'k' in /home/digitalw/public_html/forums/index.php on line 387

and i only get it when there are robots on my site also .. if that helps ???

anyone else have it or know what it means ????

[TECK]

Today at 04:37 AM sajjid said this in Post #597 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=401424#post401424)
well since i installed this hack which seems to be working on my forum but all my listing have gone from google search index nothing come up now this happened yesterday i find it very strange how can this happen in just one day
Is normal, read the first post related to Google drops.

[Mickie D]

hi teck i have been waiting all day on these forums for yours or anyone with the skills to help and you just missed my post ????

please it is driving me mad as the main index works but when a bot is on the site i get that error at the top :(

[sajjid]

Currently 2 members, 1 guests and 18 web robots (Google) on the boards.|

is it normal tohave 14 google bots on the boards they been on for few hours now i thought they only stay for few mminutes plus what does this mean

Google | Retrieving Password | 02:30 PM | 64.68.82.50

This is what I saw on the "Who's Online" section. What does it mean retrieving password? Is it taking our passwords?

[telc]

This is what I saw on the "Who's Online" section. What does it mean retrieving password? Is it taking our passwords?

no its not taking your passwords its just following this URL:

http://www.spinzone.org/forums/member.php?action=lostpw

That as far as it will get.

[infiniterb]

I've never even seen a google bot on the forums and I've been using the Search Archiver hack for about 2 months.

[sajjid]

Today at 06:41 PM infiniterb said this in Post #603 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=402037#post402037)
I've never even seen a google bot on the forums and I've been using the Search Archiver hack for about 2 months.


come and visit my forums and you will see loads of googlebots
did you submit your site to all the search engines listed in the first post?

[infiniterb]

Yup, did it initially when I installed the hack. Very weird. Now I'm working on the optimizations and making my archive folder .html instead of just www.clantt.com/archive/ in hopes that will help.

[sajjid]

i was going to edit my preious post to say place a link on my forums maybe the bots will pick it up but i see you already done i may it live link you have more chances one of the bots picking it up.
also did you do the

Forums Optimizations
You MUST perform also some the mods listed below if you want your forums optimized properly for search engines indexing.
Steps 1 to 3 are vital, the rest is optional.

1. TO STRIP THE sessionhash FROM TEMPLATES (ONLY FOR CRAWLERS), READ MORE HERE.
2. TO BLOCK CRAWLERS GO TO CERTAIN PAGES, READ MORE HERE.
3. TO LINK EACH FORUM/THREAD DIRECTLY TO ARCHIVE FILES, READ MORE HERE.
4. TO DISPLAY NICE LOCATIONS, THE FIX FOR online.php FILE IS HERE.
5. TO DISPLAY CRAWLER NAME INSTEAD OF GUEST ON FRONTPAGE AND ONLINE PAGE, READ MORE HERE. (mod by Inphinity and xiphoid)
6. TO DISPLAY CRAWLER NAME INSTEAD OF GUEST ON ONLINE PAGE only, READ MORE HERE.
7. IF YOU WANT THE MAIN ARCHIVE FILE TO HAVE A .php EXTENSION, READ MORE HERE.
8. TO CHANGE THE threads/posts per page NUMERIC VALUES, READ MORE HERE.
9. TO DISPLAY THE SMILIES AS image parsed, READ MORE HERE (mod by Logician).

IMPORTANT
Kill crawler918.com! READ MORE HERE.


i wonder how will these bot stay on my forums because they been here allday today Thanks to TECK
TECK i must say you have made one hell of a hack i never had this amny visits from bot before

[infiniterb]

Thanks a lot man. I'm having trouble now with the Friendly Urls...it seems to not be working right.

Also, in the user agent checking, where do you put this code:

## function for user ip address checking
## matches full/part of an ip address
## might be useful for people who dont have a .htaccess file
## or those who want to identify bots who dont supply a valid or a cloaked
## useragent. probably should be called on return of 0 from useragentcheck
## in online.php
##
## i think its unnecessary. also the ip address matching isnt great since php
## cant handle CIDR addresses so either you break the ip address up and match
## values or you use ranges (as below) which will also identify ip outside
## the allocated range
## ie crawler918.com
## http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=!%20NET-12-148-209-192-1
## 12.148.209.192/26
## /26 is 62 ip addresses identifying 12.148.209. means that you're blocking 254 ip
## address which will exclude non rogue ips.
## ip address have a tendancy to change and would result in a fairly bit list.

function useripaddresscheck( $match_addr, $addr_code )
{

$addr = array(
'12.148.209.' => 'www.nameprotect.com|||crawler918.com',
'12.148.196.' => 'www.nameprotect.com|||crawler918.com',
'12.175.0.' => 'www.nameprotect.com|||crawler918.com',

'63.148.99.' => 'www.cyveillance.com|||cyveillance',
'65.118.41.' => 'www.cyveillance.com|||cyveillance'
);

foreach( $addr as $useraddr => $addrurl )
{
if ( preg_match ("/^\d+$/", $useraddr) )
{
$useraddr = $addrurl;
$addrurl = "Web Robot";
}

if ( preg_match ("/^". preg_quote ($useraddr) ."\d+/i", $match_addr) )
{
$addrinfo = preg_split ("/\|\|\|/", $addrurl);
if (!($addrinfo[1])) {
$addrinfo[0] = "http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/active.html";
$addrinfo[1] = "Web Robot ".$useraddr."*";
}

switch ($addr_code) {
case 0:
return 1;
break;
case 1:
return $addrinfo[1];
break;
case 2:
return '</a><a href="http://'. $addrinfo[0] .'" alt="'. $addrinfo[1] .'"><i>'. $addrinfo[1] .'</i>';
break;
}
}
}

}

## ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ##

[infiniterb]

I'm also having problems with the Friendly URL's not showing up...seems like some of the code isn't exact in the hack as it is in the templates.

[sajjid]

Today at 07:15 PM infiniterb said this in Post #607 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=402049#post402049)
Thanks a lot man. I'm having trouble now with the Friendly Urls...it seems to not be working right.

Also, in the user agent checking, where do you put this code:

## function for user ip address checking
## matches full/part of an ip address
## might be useful for people who dont have a .htaccess file
## or those who want to identify bots who dont supply a valid or a cloaked
## useragent. probably should be called on return of 0 from useragentcheck
## in online.php
##
## i think its unnecessary. also the ip address matching isnt great since php
## cant handle CIDR addresses so either you break the ip address up and match
## values or you use ranges (as below) which will also identify ip outside
## the allocated range
## ie crawler918.com
## http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=!%20NET-12-148-209-192-1
## 12.148.209.192/26
## /26 is 62 ip addresses identifying 12.148.209. means that you're blocking 254 ip
## address which will exclude non rogue ips.
## ip address have a tendancy to change and would result in a fairly bit list.

## ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ##

i was not sure on the last bit because instructions were not very
clear so i left it out here is screen shot of my forums
http://www.spinzone.org/web_ro1.jpg

[infiniterb]

I got my friendly URLs fixed...forgot the Navbar thing at the end.

Yeah, I guess I'll leave that out since I don't know exactly where to put it.

[Mickie D]

hi can i still get support for my trouble i am having with an earlier post i made ??

post 598 from this thread please

[Haddy]

Mysterious problems with installing on new sever....It only shows it in a text format -> http://www.themodfathers.com/forums/archive

Not sure what Ive done wrong...Tryed to install about 3 times on this new server and nothing seems to work....Going to keep trying but if I could be pointed in the right direction Id appriciate it...

[TECK]

You don't have the forcetype directive installed on your server.

[TECK]

05-29-03 at 06:11 PM Mickie D said this in Post #598 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=401596#post401596)
i get this error aswell ???

Warning: Unknown modifier 'k' in /home/digitalw/public_html/forums/index.php on line 387

and i only get it when there are robots on my site also .. if that helps ???

anyone else have it or know what it means ????
Uninstall the hack, it will work.
Then double check the steps you did to change the script...

[Haddy]

Today at 02:17 PM TECK said this in Post #613 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=402466#post402466)
You don't have the forcetype directive installed on your server. What is this "forcetype directive"? We went from a cpanel server to a raq server if that makes any difference...

[TECK]

You should ask your host about it.

[Mickie D]

well i know your hack works 100% fine :)

its when i added that mod to show on the main page (the one by the other guys)... but i dunno where else to get support on that ??

i also know its only when ask jeeves is on my site, so many people might not get the error until they get visited by ask jeeves ???

i done a search on google and a few other engines for this phrase:

Warning: Unknown modifier 'k' in

found about 5 sites with this problem, one was in dutch so i translated the page and they have the same problem when jeeves is visiting then... i dont get any error until jeeves is on the site

[TECK]

I would personally remove that adress so there are no more problems.
This is an optional hack made by someone else, is not me who wrote the code...

[Mickie D]

i rechecked my coding done the whole lot again to be on the safe side your ahck went flawlessly so did all the mods but again jeeves was visiting and i got the error again :(

i do think that the makers should have a look at there code because people that have this mod installed and never had jeeves on one day will get jeeves on and they will be completely baffled i was lucky that i got the error straight away because jeeves was online

i have PM'd one of the guys with the error and the lines from my index.php ... but i know everyone who makes hacks do it out of the kindness of there heart and also have there own lifes :)

but yeah i have removed jeeves from the code :) thanks

[TECK]

I think we can all live without jeeves, if we want to use that code mod. :)

[sajjid]

when i lookup my site with trafficseeker for link back to my site it shows 964 on msn but when i search only get few also since i installed this hack which is great i am having to delete about 50 members a day because they dont post a thing just browse and every time i look Who's Online i say 2-3 people registering at all times i guess most visitors dont come in to forums just browse archives.
again its a great hack

[gmarik]

Teck, only Results 1 - 10 of about 68,600. Search took 0.27 seconds on google, not quite 1 000 000 ... :)

[TECK]

Google is back strong on my website! Whohooo!

[Dev-United]

What great hack, thanks for all the hard work.

And oh, seems like there is a problem showing your post about linking each post to the archive. I get a timeut every time I go to read https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=344457#post344457

[Sharg]

To unistall this script, is there anything to revert or delete in the database, or should we just delete the templates ?

Cordially,
Sharg

[TECK]

Run the uninstaller.

[andyhodges]

I had a question about the script and perhaps it was already mentioned but I can't find any thread.

Is there a reason why the archives don't contain a LOGO and the regular forum links like "home, control panel, register, etc" as a navigation? Does that disrupt the spider/search engine when it's caching pages?

-Andy

[Sharg]

06-14-03 at 05:25 PM TECK said this in Post #626 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=408925#post408925)
Run the uninstaller.


Which script is the uninstaller in ?

Cordially,
Sharg

[sajjid]

here is something i found at webmasterworld.com if you wanna keep away all the nasty and unwanted bots like email snatchers and rest , you wanna remove some of them this my htaccess just dont remove the first and last two lines
use this htaccess just copy and paste.
save as text file
upload to root
rename it to .htaccess


RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^BlackWidow [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Bot\ mailto:craftbot@yahoo.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^ChinaClaw [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^DISCo [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Download\ Demon [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^eCatch [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^EirGrabber [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^EmailSiphon [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Express\ WebPictures [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^ExtractorPro [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^EyeNetIE [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^FlashGet [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^GetRight [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Go!Zilla [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Go-Ahead-Got-It [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^GrabNet [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Grafula [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^HMView [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^HTTrack [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Image\ Stripper [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Image\ Sucker [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^InterGET [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Internet\ Ninja [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^JetCar [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^JOC\ Web\ Spider [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^larbin [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^LeechFTP [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Mass\ Downloader [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^MIDown\ tool [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Mister\ PiX [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Navroad [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^NearSite [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^NetAnts [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^NetSpider [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Net\ Vampire [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^NetZIP [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Octopus [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Offline\ Explorer [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Offline\ Navigator [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^PageGrabber [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Papa\ Foto [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^pcBrowser [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^RealDownload [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^ReGet [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Siphon [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^SiteSnagger [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^SmartDownload [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^SuperBot [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^SuperHTTP [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Surfbot [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^tAkeOut [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Teleport\ Pro [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^VoidEYE [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Web\ Image\ Collector [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Web\ Sucker [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebAuto [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebCopier [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebFetch [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebReaper [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebSauger [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Website\ eXtractor [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebStripper [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebWhacker [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebZIP [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Wget [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Widow [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Xaldon\ WebSpider [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Zeus
RewriteRule ^.* - [F,L]

[sajjid]

here is something i found at webmasterworld.com if you wanna keep away all the nasty and unwanted bots like email snatchers and rest , you wanna remove some of them this my htaccess just dont remove the first and last two lines
use this htaccess just copy and paste.
save as text file
upload to root
rename it to htaccess

for some strange reason i cannot paste it please see the attachment if i copy and paste i get error

[S.Shady]

How can i deleate a folder with a httaccess in it because cuteftp doesnot show httaccess files ?

Also installed and working perfectly :) http://hcom.planethael.com/cb/archive/

[sajjid]

well you have to go in to your cp or just upload the new one old will get replaced
if you want to delete all data then just upload empty htacess file to where you want to delete the htacess file
hack works like a bot charm see it working here
http://www.spinzone.org/

[S.Shady]

sajjid uploading a empty httaccess and deleating the dir did not work :( and im not the site admin so i dont have access to the cpanel atm so i cant perm del it. its not a big deal but it annoys the hell out of me to see extra directorys just sitting on my ftp screen

[sajjid]

if you just upload empty text file and rename it .htaccess once upload that should do the trick another since i installed this hack i got crawlers every day on my forums i have four right now had about 28 google bots the other day

[sajjid]

S.Shady just wondering who did you graphics on youe site they look good

[S.Shady]

The head admin did the main site i just brought it into the vb. GrimMethod as he goes by on our site.

witch reminds me i need to add some things thats missing from the main site

[aalspach]

hi

I went through directions but something confused me. ------

1. I changed htaccess.txt to .htaccess , but the file went away?
2. I didn't have the directory /admin/forum folder) to perform the code change in template.php ?

thanks
alfred

[S.Shady]

the htaccess file should disappear as said in the pm

template.php is in the admin folder

[fastlaneweb]

Just installed, great hack! I can't wait to see the search engine results.

Thanks Again!

_________________
Bradley Green
http://www.laserforum.org

[aalspach]

yep, got it going. thanks!

[aalspach]

I got it installed but, my image/icon isn't resolving? not a biggie but, is it a simple fix?

where can I edit this file/page?

http://www.deviousthreads.com/boards/archive/

:squareeyed:

[AuthorZone.Com]

Please help?

Is there any way this script can be modified to index the rest of my site which is ALL php/MySql driven?

Thanks.

Max

[AuthorZone.Com]

Imjust installed the vBarchive hack https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?s=&threadid=47667&perpage=15&highlight=archive&display=&pagenumber=1

And it workd great:
http://www.authorzone.com/forums/archive/

BUT I need help with it.

My website runs on php/mysql and is HEAVILY intergrated with vB 2.2.8

I need to be able to make the archive hack index the rest of the site's content.

All the content on http://www.authorzone.com
submitted by users is stored in the same db as vB except for the images.

How can I get the vBarchive to index the rest of the content?

Thank you much!

Max

[bobII]

When I try to access one of the forums I get the following error message:

vBulletin Message
No forum specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the webmaster

Any ideas?

URL: http://www.raiderfans.net/forum/archive

[Tigerdude]

My host just installed phpsuexec (whatever that is) on 6/30/2003. I just noticed my archive is no longer functioning. (tigerforums.com/archive)

Would installing phpsuexec have anything to do with my archive not functioning? I'm assuming thats what caused it. Is there anything that can be done to fix it?

Thanks.

[Joe Mac]

Hi I just installed the Hack, and went to make the modifications. When I went to the make the mod to link the forums/threads to the archive, it does not come up on this forum. I get a 15 second error message.

Can someone reprint the mod for me?

[Onkel_Tom]

Hi,
I got the problem that a 404-error comes up when goint to the /archive file.
I asked my Provider to check the force directive of Apache and they mentioned I have to change my .htaccess file as follows and now it works.

I had to replace:
<files archive>
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</files>

<files forumdisplay>
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</files>

<files showthread>
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</files>

with:
<files archive>
ForceType x-mapp-php4
</files>

<files forumdisplay>
ForceType x-mapp-php4
</files>

<files showthread>
ForceType x-mapp-php4
</files>

It's just a hint for other persons which has the same problem as me.

Now it work fine ;) Thank you for this great hack !

[Gutspiller]

I've installed this hack, but I have some problems and questions about fine tuning it after I get the problems fixed.

Problems:
1. My icons aren'tshowing up. I followed the instructions and tried both ways of putting just { imagesfolder } (without the spaces) and it didn't work either way. The dead image url appears as this:

http://www.theforumz.com/forumz/showthread/images/icons/icon24.gif

and the one on the full thread appears as:

http://www.theforumz.com/forumz/images/icons/icon24.gif

What do I need to change the image path too? It kinda looks like I need to change it to ../{ imagesfolder } (without the spaces). Is that correct?

2. How do I get the correct colors for my threads? (http://www.theforumz.com/forumz/showthread/t-56716.html)

As you can see, each posts background color is incorrect. How do I change the blue in each posts background to the darker gray I'm using on my website?


Fine Tune:

1. Where can I find the code for the "Click HERE for Original Thread" line? I want to make the entire line clickable and a bright red font.

2. How do I go about adding my banner code to the top and bottom of the archived threads? I want to use this archive version also as a 56k friendly version, but I need my banners to be displayed. (Where do I go about inserting my code?)

3. Some of the smaller fonts appear too small (http://www.theforumz.com/forumz/forumdisplay/f-3.html) How do I go about getting them bigger? I've had this problem before in multiple hacks before.

Can somebody please help me with these questions? I really want to get this hack working.

Thanks a bunch for any help you can provide me with.

[Kaelon]

Great work on a wonderful hack. I have added it at my forums (nearly 500,000 posts, over 9000 members).

http://www.alleria.com/forums/archive

However, after 24 hours have passed, when I search google using site:alleria.com archive - I still get only three results from older pages that had used the word "archive". Any thoughts on why this might be?

[AuthorZone.Com]

Ok, the hack works wonders.

BUT, I have a problem and need HEEEEEEEEEELP? :(

My site is ALL dependent on php and the vB database.

BUT, the archive hack does not index the rest of my site.

For example, all of these urls act the same as the vB forum with respect to content/threads:
http://authorzone.com/view_authors.php?s=
http://authorzone.com/view_books.php?s=
http://authorzone.com/view_stories.php?s=
http://authorzone.com/view_articles.php?s=
http://www.authorzone.com/view_poetry.php?s=
http://www.authorzone.com/view_news.php?s=
http://www.authorzone.com/view_events.php?s=
http://www.authorzone.com/view_reviews.php?s=
http://www.authorzone.com/view_pressreleases.php?s=

I need all of these archived as well.

Help please?

Max

[Kaelon]

Max - that's quite a hack. It'd be very difficult to code without having full access to your database structures. The vbArchive hack is only suited to the vB database structure.

So you're out of luck.

Kaelon

[AuthorZone.Com]

My site uses the vB database. the content tables are added to the same db.

[Gutspiller]

07-08-03 at 07:53 PM Gutspiller said this in Post #648 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=416307#post416307)
I've installed this hack, but I have some problems and questions about fine tuning it after I get the problems fixed.

Problems:
1. My icons aren'tshowing up. I followed the instructions and tried both ways of putting just { imagesfolder } (without the spaces) and it didn't work either way. The dead image url appears as this:

http://www.theforumz.com/forumz/showthread/images/icons/icon24.gif

and the one on the full thread appears as:

http://www.theforumz.com/forumz/images/icons/icon24.gif
BUMP
What do I need to change the image path too? It kinda looks like I need to change it to ../{ imagesfolder } (without the spaces). Is that correct?

2. How do I get the correct colors for my threads? (http://www.theforumz.com/forumz/showthread/t-56716.html)

As you can see, each posts background color is incorrect. How do I change the blue in each posts background to the darker gray I'm using on my website?


Fine Tune:

1. Where can I find the code for the "Click HERE for Original Thread" line? I want to make the entire line clickable and a bright red font.

2. How do I go about adding my banner code to the top and bottom of the archived threads? I want to use this archive version also as a 56k friendly version, but I need my banners to be displayed. (Where do I go about inserting my code?)

3. Some of the smaller fonts appear too small (http://www.theforumz.com/forumz/forumdisplay/f-3.html) How do I go about getting them bigger? I've had this problem before in multiple hacks before.

Can somebody please help me with these questions? I really want to get this hack working.

Thanks a bunch for any help you can provide me with.

[Gutspiller]

^^^ Bump

[hpisavagecom]

This works well, but for some reason when I try to reference the following page on my site (this page uses vbhome)

http://www.hpisavageforum.com/index.php

I receive the following error:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare archive_nopermission() (previously declared in /home/savage/public_html/global.php:239) in /home/savage/public_html/forum/admin/functions.php on line 2386


Any suggesstions on how to fix this?

[TECK]

You use the vbHL archive, that's why...

[Cal Poly Forum]

Before you run the vbarchive.php script installer, you must make sure how the {imagesfolder} replacement variable is set.


I don't have a clue of what this is saying.
My images directory is under forums.
What do I need to change/edit?

[bobII]

When I try to access one of the forums on the archive page I get the following error message:

vBulletin Message
No forum specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the webmaster

Any ideas?

URL: http://www.raiderfans.net/forum/archive

Thanks in advance,
BobII

[Onkel_Tom]

Hi all,
I've the mod for displaying crawler names on frontpage and who's Online installed from Inphinity and xiphoid.

My who's Online page shows a wrong Syntax for the Crawlername with a " between.

Can anybody help to remove this stupi " between the name ?

[GunsNetwork]

But I cannot get mine to work and I really don't understand how it is suppose to work.

You all who make these hacks need to put a little more detail for us novices.

http://www.gunsnet.net/forum/archive

I would like for this to work and have made all the changes but something is off. Need some help please.

Thanks

BowHunt

[TECK]

Your forum link is http://www.gunsnet.net/forums/ and not the one listed above...
Please make sure you read the first post, related to hack requirements and check it with your host.

Regards,
Floren.

[Gutspiller]

Will somebody please help me with my archive? It's having troubles. I have 2 problems and 2 fixes I need.

Problem 1. (Example: http://www.theforumz.com/forumz/showthread/t-58064.html) The background of each post is appearing as the wrong color. Is there a way I can change it in the archive file?

Problem 2. (Example: http://www.theforumz.com/forumz/showthread/t-58064.html (same url as the one above)) Icons/smilies aren't showing. How do I get them to work?

Fix 1. (Example: http://www.theforumz.com/forumz/forumdisplay/f-3.html) On the forum pages where it shows the date, time and how many replies, the text is super small. I've had this problem before in other hacks and it's some setting I have that causes the smallfont to not work properly. Can somebody help me locate where it's getting the smallfont so that I can change it to font size=1?

Fix2. I don't want my members using the archives and not being submitted to banner views (They keep the site running). Can somebody help me on how I can add a header and footer to all pages within the archive? Whether they are seperate files like header.htm and footer.htm or if I have to manually insert the banner code into one of the archive files, that would be better than nothing.

Can somebody please help me with these 4 simple things? I really want to use this hack, but with these problems I can't. :(

Please help.

[Asso]

Hi teck
i have a vbHL 3.8 powered board so i installed this version of the indexer. I follow all the istructions but when i open http://www.gamesopinion.com/forum/archive i see the php code...it's possibile?

Please see yourself: http://www.gamesopinion.com/forum/archive

[NexDog]

Hmmm, strange one. Is that an Apache webserver? is the .htaccess file uploaded?

[NexDog]

Yesterday at 04:55 PM Gutspiller said this in Post #662 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=418873#post418873)
Will somebody please help me with my archive? It's having troubles. I have 2 problems and 2 fixes I need.

Problem 1. (Example: http://www.theforumz.com/forumz/showthread/t-58064.html) The background of each post is appearing as the wrong color. Is there a way I can change it in the archive file?

Problem 2. (Example: http://www.theforumz.com/forumz/showthread/t-58064.html (same url as the one above)) Icons/smilies aren't showing. How do I get them to work?

Fix 1. (Example: http://www.theforumz.com/forumz/forumdisplay/f-3.html) On the forum pages where it shows the date, time and how many replies, the text is super small. I've had this problem before in other hacks and it's some setting I have that causes the smallfont to not work properly. Can somebody help me locate where it's getting the smallfont so that I can change it to font size=1?

Fix2. I don't want my members using the archives and not being submitted to banner views (They keep the site running). Can somebody help me on how I can add a header and footer to all pages within the archive? Whether they are seperate files like header.htm and footer.htm or if I have to manually insert the banner code into one of the archive files, that would be better than nothing.

Can somebody please help me with these 4 simple things? I really want to use this hack, but with these problems I can't. :(

Please help.
Well, your biggest problem is that your server appears to be down. ;)

Problem 2 - no, smilies don't work - is that a biggie?

[Gutspiller]

Today at 06:34 PM NexDog said this in Post #665 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=419080#post419080)
Well, your biggest problem is that your server appears to be down. ;)

Problem 2 - no, smilies don't work - is that a biggie?


Yeah, My server went down because we were hosting some Quake 4 images. :D appearantly people wanted to see em. :)

I kinda wanted the smilies. I was hoping to use the archive like a 56k friendly version of my site. That's why I wanted to add a small header and footer too if it were at all possible. If it's possible at all to get smilies working that would be really cool. I just want it so that they don't show the red Xs. So if it's not possible to get them to work, then I would at the very least like to get it to just show the text and not the redXs.

Does any of that sound possible?

[NexDog]

No red X's here. I just see the text representation of the smilies. You can add a header and a footer in th email archive template.

[Asso]

yes,i followed carefully all passages but now i see the php code lol

[RVB Pix]

I've just installed the Teck's vbArchive but for some reason when I go to the Archive page the links are dead.
Here's the link

http://www.bytephoto.com/forums/archive/

Any ideas why. I'm stuck.

[limey]

links output as text and not linkable in the archive. Any ideas?


see my post on vbhlarchive:

http://www.teckwizards.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1586

[Gutspiller]

Where does the VBarchive.php script put it's contents? I'm working on tweaking some text sizes and I can't find where the script put the content. Can somebody please help me out?

Also can anybody please help me with a way to either get smilies / icons to work or to just should the text. Just not the redXs. :(

Please help.

Thanks.

[michaelab]

All I get when I go to my archive directory is a 404 Not Found :ermm:

See here: http://www.zerogain.com/forum/archive/

My server uses Apache and the mod_mime module (containing ForceType) is installed. Any ideas??

Don't know if it's relevant but my host has something in the FAQ that goes like this:


By default .php files are parsed as php4 on Oneandone Servers.

However there are still a lot of .php3 scripts out there, as standard these will not work. What you need to do is either create a new .htaccess file or edit an existing one.

Please create a .htaccess file in your main directory containing the following:

Create a .htaccess file in your main directory containing the following:


.htaccess

AddType x-mapp-php4 .php3


Upload this file into this file into the root of your domain

The changes take effect immediatly.

I've tried changing the ForceType directives to use x-mapp-php4 instead of x-httpd-php but that didn't make any difference. I also tried having an the vBarchive .htaccess file in my root - no joy :(

Are there any indexers that don't require ForceType?

Michael.

[Gutspiller]

07-19-03 at 07:28 PM NexDog said this in Post #667 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=419091#post419091)
No red X's here. I just see the text representation of the smilies. You can add a header and a footer in th email archive template.


In this thread: http://www.theforumz.com/forumz/showthread/t-58064.html there are read Xs. Because those smilies are part of html code. I need it to not allow the <img tag in the archive in the threads part. Also, it looks like I'm getting some header error code here at home on XP. I just checked it today at work on 98SE and it looked fine... I think.

Anybody help me please. :dead:

Oh yeah, and I checked it in Netscape and it's completely fookered.

[jc2002]

I just installed the hack and now my vbhome lite homepage gives an error message:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare archive_nopermission() (previously declared in /home/bbschine/public_html/global.php:378) in /home/bbschine/public_html/bbs/admin/functions.php on line 2447

Can someone help??? I searched the functions.php file and did not find archive_nopermission() declared there.

[Andreas Raht]

07-08-03 at 07:26 PM Onkel_Tom said this in Post #647 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=416224#post416224)
Hi,
I got the problem that a 404-error comes up when goint to the /archive file.
I asked my Provider to check the force directive of Apache and they mentioned I have to change my .htaccess file as follows and now it works.

I had to replace:
<files archive>
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</files>

<files forumdisplay>
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</files>

<files showthread>
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</files>

with:
<files archive>
ForceType x-mapp-php4
</files>

<files forumdisplay>
ForceType x-mapp-php4
</files>

<files showthread>
ForceType x-mapp-php4
</files>

It's just a hint for other persons which has the same problem as me.

Now it work fine ;) Thank you for this great hack !


THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!!

[gsk8]

Pls forgive me if I missed this in the long thread. I have a forum called "admin" that I have password protected w/htaccess.

Obviously I don't want the contents and threads crawled, so is this sufficient?

User-agent: *
Disallow: /forum/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=16

[Gutspiller]

Can somebody please help me with my problem? grrr

Where does the archive script put the information like the text size, thread background color, etc.?

In this thread (http://www.theforumz.com/forumz/showthread/t-59251.html) in my archives you can see that the background of the threads are the wrong color for some reason as well as html image tags not showing up. Can somebody please help me get it so that the images either 1) show up and display the picture or 2) only show the code to the image, but not the red X.

If nothing else, is it possible for me to edit the vbarchive.php file and then reinstall over the top of my existing to get the right setup I want?

Please help. I've been trying to get help on this hack for a good solid month. :(

[Kaelon]

So, it has been several weeks since I added my site (www.domain.com/forums/archive) to Google, but I still don't have any of the Archive threads themselves showing up in Google.

Is this normal? Did I do something wrong with the submission process?

[Till]

Yesterday at 04:46 PM Kaelon said this in Post #678 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=422621#post422621)
So, it has been several weeks since I added my site (www.domain.com/forums/archive) to Google, but I still don't have any of the Archive threads themselves showing up in Google.

Is this normal? Did I do something wrong with the submission process?


No, perfectly normal. It sometimes takes weeks. Just link your archive and submit it to the search engines.

[jdmuniverse]

I've installed this and it works great! Thanks!

However, when I go to click on #3 addon, it comes up with this error :

3. TO LINK EACH FORUM/THREAD DIRECTLY TO ARCHIVE FILES, READ MORE HERE.

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 15 seconds exceeded in /www/vbulletin.org/htdocs/forum/admin/functions.php on line 1244

[Till]

Today at 10:20 AM jdmuniverse said this in Post #680 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=423058#post423058)
I've installed this and it works great! Thanks!

However, when I go to click on #3 addon, it comes up with this error :



Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 15 seconds exceeded in /www/vbulletin.org/htdocs/forum/admin/functions.php on line 1244

Obviously not the authors fault. ;)

[TLucent]

01-19-03 at 02:04 PM TECK said this in Post #93 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=343731#post343731)
George, you have 2 choices. Either add your forum info onto the robots.txt file (easiest way):
Disallow: /forum/forumdisplay/f-32.html
Or change this onto your forumdisplay.txt (or archive.txt) file:
if ( $forumperms['canview'] )
{To: if ( $forumperms['canview'] and !in_array( $forum['forumid'] , array( 15 , 23 , 48 ) ) )
{EDIT: what's the archive URL? so I add it in the first post...


This will not work for me.. (forumdisplay) method.. and I cannot find robots.txt

[RS25com]

Now here's a weird FYI for you all.

I using VB 2.9 and have NOT installed this hack yet, but was planning to. I am running on a Windows 2000 Server with IIS. And today I was searching for something else on Google and a match was returned from my site...

and Google sent me to the dynamic URL!!!

So, I dunno if this is because of the MS Server or something that Google has changed, but basically I no longer need to do this because my whole site has already been indexed by Google.

Cool! :D

[cscgal]

is there a version of this hack that supports vbulletin 3 beta??

[jdmuniverse]

Yesterday at 09:20 AM jdmuniverse said this in Post #680 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=423058#post423058)
I've installed this and it works great! Thanks!

However, when I go to click on #3 addon, it comes up with this error :



Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 15 seconds exceeded in /www/vbulletin.org/htdocs/forum/admin/functions.php on line 1244


Any other links to this? It says 1-3 are vital. This one is the only one I don't have installed.

TIA

[sabret00the]

01-15-03 at 06:20 AM TECK said this in Post #61 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=342218#post342218)
The fix for online.php file, to display nice links, is below.
There are 2 methods, the easy or the hard way. :)

METHOD 1 (easy)
FIND:
$loc=preg_replace("/\?s=[a-z0-9]{32}(&)?/","?",$loc);
REPLACE WITH:
$loc=preg_replace("/\?s=[a-z0-9]{32}(&)?/","?",$loc);
$loc = preg_replace( '~archive/~' , 'forumdisplay.php?forumid=' , $loc );
$loc = preg_replace( '~forumdisplay/f-~' , 'forumdisplay.php?forumid=' , $loc );
$loc = preg_replace( '~showthread/t-~' , 'showthread.php?threadid=' , $loc );
$loc = preg_replace( '~-p-[0-9]~' , '' , $loc );
$loc = preg_replace( '~.html~' , '' , $loc );
METHOD 2 (cool way)
FIND:
case 'spider':
$userinfo[where] = "Search Engine Spider";
break;
REPLACE WITH:
case 'spider':
$userinfo[where] = "Search Engine Spider";
break;
case 'archive':
$userinfo[where] = "$bbtitle <b>Archive</b> <a href='archive/'>Main Index</a>";
break;
case 'archiveforumdisplay':
if (!$forum[forumid][$userinfo[forumid]] or (!$forum[canview][$userinfo[forumid]] and $hideprivateforums)) {
$userinfo[where] = "Viewing <b>Archive</b> Forum";
} else {
$userinfo[where] = "Viewing <b>Archive</b> Forum <a href='forumdisplay/f-$userinfo[forumid].html'>".$forum[forumid][$userinfo[forumid]]."</a>";
}
break;
case 'archiveshowthread':
if (!$thread[title][$userinfo[threadid]] or !$forum[canview][$thread[forumid][$userinfo[threadid]]] or (!$forum[canviewothers][$thread[forumid][$userinfo[threadid]]] and $thread[postuserid][$userinfo[threadid]] != $bbuserinfo[userid])) {
$userinfo[where] = "Viewing <b>Archive</b> Thread";
} else {
$userinfo[where] = "Viewing <b>Archive</b> Thread <a href='showthread/t-$userinfo[threadid].html'>".$thread[title][$userinfo[threadid]]."</a>";
}
break;
FIND:
$loc=preg_replace("/\?s=[a-z0-9]{32}(&)?/","?",$loc);
REPLACE WITH:
$loc=preg_replace("/\?s=[a-z0-9]{32}(&)?/","?",$loc);
$loc = preg_replace( '~archive/~' , 'archive.php' , $loc );
$loc = preg_replace( '~forumdisplay/f-~' , 'archiveforumdisplay.php?forumid=' , $loc );
$loc = preg_replace( '~showthread/t-~' , 'archiveshowthread.php?threadid=' , $loc );
$loc = preg_replace( '~-p-[0-9]~' , '' , $loc );
$loc = preg_replace( '~.html~' , '' , $loc );
FIND:
case '/robots.txt':
$userinfo[activity] = 'spider';
break;
REPLACE WITH:
case '/robots.txt':
$userinfo[activity] = 'spider';
break;
case 'archive.php':
$userinfo[activity] = 'archive';
break;
case 'archiveforumdisplay.php':
$blowup = explode('=', $token1);
$forumid = intval($blowup[1]);
$forumids .= ",$forumid";
$userinfo[activity] = 'archiveforumdisplay';
$userinfo[forumid] = $forumid;
break;
case 'archiveshowthread.php':
if (strstr($token1,'threadid')) {
$blowup = explode('=', $token1);
$threadid = intval($blowup[1]);
$threadids .= ",$threadid";
$userinfo[activity] = 'archiveshowthread';
$userinfo[threadid] = $threadid;
} else if (strstr($token2,'threadid')) {
$blowup = explode('=', $token2);
$threadid = intval($blowup[1]);
$threadids .= ",$threadid";
$userinfo[activity] = 'archiveshowthread';
$userinfo[threadid] = $threadid;
}
break;

most useful post in this whole thing and it's not linked in the first post

[jdmuniverse]

Many thanks to you! :D

[Mr. Brian]

Damn.. that's excellent! No doubt, I'm gonna install it for sure.

What a admirable hack it was. :alien:

[Mr. Brian]

*Installed*

Works great! Thumbs up bro.

[limey]

Links dont show up on output for some reason....any ideas?

[pgowder]

Great hack!! Easy to install.

I was running the other archive hack, but lost ground on Google. I installed this on Thursday of last week. I went from 1,880 pages indexed on Thursday to 4,430 pages indexed today!

Thanks!!!!!

[Megadeuce]

I'm on my 5th time trying to install this hack!

I've read the instructions about the {imagesfolder} replacement variable and I can't find it in the replacements.php file.

What am I doing wrong?

Do I have a 50% chance of using $bburl/{imagesfolder} or {imagesfolder}

Also, if the install doesn't work, do I have to erase everything and start over?

[Floris]

This is simpler then you think :)

He did not mean to modify a file.
He meant:

Goto the admin control panel,
browse from the left menu down to the 'replacement' section
and click on 'modify' to find the {imagesfolder} replacement

Then, if you see it there and it says forum/images (or dir/imagesdir) then you dont have to modify the file
but if it says http://www.yourforumsite.com/forum/images/) (a full URL) then you have to modify the file.

in 99% you dont have to modify anything

[Megadeuce]

When I expand the list under default, it just says

{imagesfolder} [change original]

I don't have to modify the file right?

Also if this doesn't work, what is my next step. Ive installed a few times and my urls still look the same.

If I mess up on one step, does it mess up the forum permanently or can I just pick up from step 2, 3 or 4?

[Megadeuce]

I installed this in my root directory. I don't have an archive folder. Do I need to make one?

[Megadeuce]

Thanks Xiphoid!

:) :banana: :classic:

[glenvw]

I have been using this hack for about 5-6 months. All I can say is this baby is awesome. Kudos to Teck!

Now, a question / request.

How hard would it be to set the hack up so that no matter what link / thread / thread title someone clicks on within the search hack, they are taken to a pre-designated page?

I want to tweak this hack's potential for driving traffic to my home page only.

I look forward to your reply.

Thanks!

Glen

[Megadeuce]

My site propagated less than a week ago and my site has already been spidered with this hack!

Refer to previous post! Thanks Tech!

[keress]

Okay, I want to try this, but I can't find a link to download it. Am I just having a stupid day or what?

[wooolF[RM]]

I think so...

[jdmuniverse]

Today at 02:27 PM keress said this in Post #699 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=426005#post426005)
Okay, I want to try this, but I can't find a link to download it. Am I just having a stupid day or what?

It's in the first post at the bottom where it says attachment :)

[jdmuniverse]

BTW; Google hasn't danced in quite a while eh? :(

[Megadeuce]

But, is there a way to redirect the user to the page where he/she can post. This hack is the best thing going for me right now but since my site just went up last week, there is hardly any content.

I was wondering if there was a way to redirect the user to the php pages from the html page? I think I am losing members because if there are no posts in the forum, then there is no way for them to click the link to see the original post. Currently, I'm going into each forum and putting a thread in with the link to the php page.

my forums are:
USA Sports Forums (http://www.usasportsforums.com)
Game Nebula Forums (http://www.gamenebula.com/forums)

Thanks for any help you can give

[NexDog]

Having an issue with some spiders. I keep seeing this in Who's online:

Guest Unknown Location: /showthread/nexica_01/main/v01_r4_c21_f2.gif? 1

or

/showthread/nexica_01/main/v01_r1_c22_f2.gif?

or

/showthread/nexica_01/main/v01_r1_c12_f2.gif?

And it always a link to very first thread of our forum. I can't uderstand why this url keeps on appearing. If you go in to the archive, the first thread is available in the correct format - I checked. It is really messing up Who's Online....anyone know a fix?

[NexDog]

I tried to add in online.php

case 'showthread':
$userinfo[where] = "Viewing <b>Archive</b> <a href='showthread/t-1.html?s=$session[sessionhash]'>helloooo....... is there a prize ?</a>";
break;

And:

case 'showthread/nexica_01/main/v01_r4_c18_f2.gif':
$userinfo[activity] = 'showthread';
break;


But still get the dreaded Unkonwn Location...

[TECK]

Yesterday at 09:30 PM Megadeuce said this in Post #703 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=427149#post427149)
But, is there a way to redirect the user to the page where he/she can post. This hack is the best thing going for me right now but since my site just went up last week, there is hardly any content.

I was wondering if there was a way to redirect the user to the php pages from the html page? I think I am losing members because if there are no posts in the forum, then there is no way for them to click the link to see the original post. Currently, I'm going into each forum and putting a thread in with the link to the php page.

my forums are:
USA Sports Forums (http://www.usasportsforums.com)
Game Nebula Forums (http://www.gamenebula.com/forums)
Thanks for any help you can give
That's cloacking... you will get banned from search engines.... don't do it.

[NexDog]

Teck, can you comment on my little issue? Any insight you could give me would be most helpful.

[TECK]

Yesterday at 05:19 AM NexDog said this in Post #704 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=427254#post427254)
Having an issue with some spiders. I keep seeing this in Who's online:

And it always a link to very first thread of our forum. I can't uderstand why this url keeps on appearing. If you go in to the archive, the first thread is available in the correct format - I checked. It is really messing up Who's Online....anyone know a fix?
Someone is trying to copy your graph files? It shows every time someone it's viewing them... just ignore them, they will stop doing it after a while.

[NexDog]

Cool, do you think I should .htaccess the IPs? I guess it isn't real forum traffic..?

[NexDog]

Teck, so many hits to it though. It really makes who's online a mess. Why is this happening?

[NexDog]

Well, I'm denyingh them through .htaccess:

order allow,deny
deny from 127.0.0.1
deny from 12.236.36.35
deny from 24.247.203.160
deny from 62.77.178.123
deny from 66.130.102.163
deny from 81.224.90.16
deny from 82.41.40.8
deny from 136.186.1.117
deny from 146.7.196.82
deny from 192.18.17.19
deny from 200.43.235.239
deny from 203.106.66.254
deny from 212.138.47.11
deny from 212.138.47.12
deny from 212.138.47.17
deny from 212.138.47.18
deny from 212.138.47.20
deny from 212.138.47.29
deny from 217.226.161.235
allow from all

I would still like to know what they are doing and how they are finding that url though.....

[NexDog]

The images that are being picked up through online.php are the mail forum buttons like:

http://www.nexusportal.net/nexica_01/main/v01_r10_c2_f2.gif

But how does that end up being:

http://www.nexusportal.net/showthread/nexica_01/main/v01_r10_c2_f2.gif?

Through the "showthread" file with a session ID..?? I've given up on the .htaccess. New IPs are coming in all the time. It is really ++++ing me off.

[NexDog]

Still happening. :(

[Tigerdude]

Has anyone used the Search engine indexer with VB 3.0? Are there plans to make it work with VB3 or does VB3 have this sort of feature already built in? I hope not. The less people using it the better ;)

[DJ5A]

Hello Everybody:

Can I use this part of Teck's Hack only on vB Ver 2.3.0:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=342706#post342706

and it will work ok?

Also how do I go about testing it user the User Agents name?

[danrak]

Anyone having any problems with this hack and 2.3.2 where when you post a link in a forum it adds the url of your board before it? For example, if you post a link to www.xyz.com it will end up being www.yourboard.com//"www.xyz.com

[TECK]

Important Update
Please update your footer link to the new web site:
cpublisher.com
The old link (teckwizards.com) has expired.
Thank you.

[limey]

danrak:
thats a bug that has been discussed on vb.com

My bbcode just wont show up in the damn archive I have reinstalled the hack many many times...what am I missing?

teck..ur online....if u have any insight on my problem it would be a great help. This is making me nuts outta frustration.

[Roody]

Today at 01:23 AM TECK said this in Post #717 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=429368#post429368)
Important Update
Please update your footer link to the new web site:
cpublisher.com
The old link (teckwizards.com) has expired.
Thank you.

Quick reminder on how I need to do this? Also, what exactly do I need to do when I upgrade vBulletin, but have problems getting articles to stay on there after this upgrade? I dont want to run vbhlinstall.php each time. Can you remind me on this when you respond.

Thx

[danrak]

Today at 01:23 AM limey said this in Post #718 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=429369#post429369)
danrak:
thats a bug that has been discussed on vb.com



I had posted over there about this, they just said to re-install everything, and couldn't help me with the hack. I will try to search again though.

[The Matrix 7]

Hello,

i have try to install this hack, but i get a 404 Message.

Can you help me, please? If i need vB Lite to use this Hack?

Here are the code in the .htaccess:

<files archive>
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</files>

<files forumdisplay>
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</files>

<files showthread>
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</files>

RedirectMatch 301 /archive$ http://www.the-web-matrix.de/archive/


My URL: www.the-web-matrix.de

[The Matrix 7]

I have find out the reason for my problem.

My Server haven't the core module (ForceType).
It is possible to use this hack without ForceTyp?

[Superiormuscle]

Hi, I had this hack installed about 15 days ago and I submitted to all the search engines aswell about 15 days ago. My archive still isnt showing up in the engines. Any idea whats wrong? How long should it take to show up? Here is a link to my archive. Tell me if its setup correctly. thanks http://www.superiormuscle.com/archive/

[Superiormuscle]

bump, any help guys?

[atomic fireball]

As TECK explains, it can take months.

Uploading your archive URL to various sites is the first step. Then, you'll have to keep an eye out in the online users for the search engine spiders to hit your site. Even then, it can still take months before you are actaully published on their search engines. It really depends on the search engine, etc.

I submitted my site in early July, and it is not on any major search engines yet.

Bottom line is, we have to be patient for this to work. :)

Hope this info helps.

[Floris]

What was that fix again for the whois online locations saying 'unknown location' ?

[Superiormuscle]

ok thanks guys, i guess i will have to just wait. :( lol

[Floris]

eyh superiormuscle :)

Yeah, you have to wait, sorry :)

Not the fault of the hack, but the fault of google :)

[The Matrix 7]

Ok, i have rewirte the hack and it works great.

Thanks very much for this hack.

http://www.the-web-matrix.de/archive


Must i link to the archiv to be on the forum?

[Megadeuce]

Help,
I tried another one of Tech's hacks (vbmicrostats) and things went wrong. I now get this error from the archive section when I try to go to a forum:
Parse error: parse error in /home2/usasport/public_html/admin/functions.php on line 944

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: vbsetcookie() in /home2/usasport/public_html/admin/sessions.php on line 205

I'm also getting this error on my Home Page (http://www.usasportsforums.com)
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home2/usasport/public_html/admin/db_mysql.php:255) in /home2/usasport/public_html/admin/functions.php on line 1707

The forum still works but...

Can anyone please help with this?

[Sebastian]

Hello Teck.

I tried the hack here (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=342706#post342706) to remove the sessionhash from spiders but the hash still shows up, i tried no_sessionhash( 'mozilla' ); to test on IE, but sessions are still there... any ideas?

thanx.

[Sebastian]

nevermind, seems to be working now... weird.

[EVO VIII Chris]

Having problems with step 3 here...

STEP 3
Once you uploaded all files onto your server, you need to rename the following files:
- archive.txt to archive
- forumdisplay.txt to forumdisplay
- htaccess.txt to .htaccess
- showthread.txt to showthread

IMPORTANT
Do NOT rename the files locally then upload them! You must proceed with the files rename ONLY onto your server.

What do I rename those file extensions to? .php, .html, .htm or what? They have to have some sort of file extension and if I rename them to .php they will overwrite the existing vB ones. Also I can not name a file to .htaccess because it has to have some sort of a file extension as well. Can you help me with this step, Im a little confused.

Thanks
Chris

[limey]

Chris just rename them to the file name....without any extension...

ie archive

[EVO VIII Chris]

Thanks for the help man, but when you try to rename htaccess to .htaccess it wont allow you to because of the period in front of it it thinks that you are trying to rename the file with a .htaccess extension and no file name so it wont allow you to have the . infront of it. Any solution to this?

[EVO VIII Chris]

you cant just rename the file to archive though otherwise when you go to www.yoursite.com/Forums/archive it wont bring up anything except for your archive file showing all the code and everything. I think I am very lost here. I have this whole thing figured out except for renaming these files. It you dont have any extension on the file it will be useless.

[limey]

u may need to do it on the server if u access....or change your editor...so it allows u to save as .htaccess

[EVO VIII Chris]

I am also thinking that maybe I have apache set up wrong. I am really new to Apache but I understand as stated in the readme file for this archive that it says this...

The script uses Apache's ForceType directive. Most of Apache servers have it installed by default

I know I am using apache 1.3.28 and I am not sure if it has this installed by default? If anyone has any time could they explain to me what force type does? I couldnt find anything about it even on Apaches site.

Thanks
Chris

[EVO VIII Chris]

I am the server. I run my own server so I have access to it all right here. I am using Windows 2000 and I am running Apache 1.3.28 I have no idea why this is acting the way it is.

[EVO VIII Chris]

Ok nevermind I got the .htaccess to work with my FTP and it let me rename it to .htaccess Anyways check out my site now at www.vorspann.net/Forums/archive and take a look. It will simply show you the archive.php file in text. Does anyone know whats going on here. I think possibly I may have my Apache set up wrong. All my other pages work but this one doesnt and I am just guessing but when I look at the .htaccess file I notice that it redirects you when you go to the archive page by using the $archive variable. My guess would be it is not doing this becauser perhaps I have not set up Apache to read my .htaccess file in the directory it is in? Does that sound right to anyone? I am still not sure though because my Apache httpd.conf file says this...

AccessFileName .htaccess

#
# The following lines prevent .htaccess files from being viewed by
# Web clients. Since .htaccess files often contain authorization
# information, access is disallowed for security reasons. Comment
# these lines out if you want Web visitors to see the contents of
# .htaccess files. If you change the AccessFileName directive above,
# be sure to make the corresponding changes here.
#
# Also, folks tend to use names such as .htpasswd for password
# files, so this will protect those as well.
#
<Files ~ "^\.ht">
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
Satisfy All
</Files>

[atomic fireball]

Just rename it "remotely" using an FTP client. Most FTP clients will let you right-click (or control-click on the Mac) to bring down an option for "rename".

You will NEED to have the period in front of the file name. This is crucial.

[EVO VIII Chris]

HA I got it! I had this line in Apache wrong...

# This controls which options the .htaccess files in directories can
# override. Can also be "All", or any combination of "Options", "FileInfo",
# "AuthConfig", and "Limit"
#
AllowOverride None

I had to change it to AllowOverride All. Is that safe to have it override all by the way? Now I just have to figure out where I change this...

Before you run the vbarchive.php script installer, you must make sure how the {imagesfolder} replacement variable is set.
If you have it set to the full URL, you will need to edit the script installer and replace any:
$bburl/{imagesfolder} with {imagesfolder}.

Does anyone know what all templats or folders that is in cause my main image is not showing up because of this

[limey]

Anyone know how to make the ARchive visible to guests but the forum not open to guests?

[Kaelon]

Interestingly enough, during my upgrade to v2.3.2, I lost many of the templates; I had to re-install them manually, and everything worked again. *shrug* Not sure if anyone else had this problem.

Kaelon

[TECK]

Today at 09:05 AM Kaelon said this in Post #744 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=431490#post431490)
Interestingly enough, during my upgrade to v2.3.2, I lost many of the templates; I had to re-install them manually, and everything worked again. *shrug* Not sure if anyone else had this problem.

Kaelon
Is explained in the readme file... simply run again the installer, no need to install them manually. The modified templates will not be overwritten, so you don't lose any mods.

[TECK]

09-03-03 at 05:20 PM EVO VIII Chris said this in Post #742 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=431007#post431007)
HA I got it! I had this line in Apache wrong...

# This controls which options the .htaccess files in directories can
# override. Can also be "All", or any combination of "Options", "FileInfo",
# "AuthConfig", and "Limit"
#
AllowOverride None

I had to change it to AllowOverride All. Is that safe to have it override all by the way?
Ya, it is.

[Megadeuce]

I've had five sessions of spider visits today for a total of 92 spiders. This hack is the best.

[Ruffneck]

Please help me guys...
I ?ve installed it, now i?t works but doesn?t realy works...

http://www.hardtalk.info/forum/archive/ This show all categorys from my forum, on the html site works fine, but if i click a link i become the error message:

No forum specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the

What?s wrong?

[EVO VIII Chris]

Why is it that I have this hack installed and the archive works great and all however it did not make my current posts and links in my forum to be search engine index-able. For example the links still look like this... http://www.vorspann.net/Forums/showthread.php?threadid=16

Dont try clicking on that right now as my DNS server is down and I am in the process of fixing it.

Thanks
Chris

[NexDog]

My online.php is still full of 20 unknown locations:

http://nexusportal.net/showthread/nexica_01/main/v01_r4_c21_f2.gif?

Teck, simple answer as to what is causing it woyuld be helpful. Do you advise rehacking somewhere or reinstalling templates? It makes no sense as to why it is happening. :(